Drum container



Jan. 29, 1935.;

H. R. Bl lss Er AL DRUM CONTAINER Filed May 25, 1952 '1111111111114 .unen/1111.

BY 6W ATT@ NEY Pausini Jan. 2a, 193s- Herbert R. Bliss Falls, N.

FFHC' DRUM CONTAINER Y., assignors,

Boston Wire Stitcher a corporation of Maine Application May 2s, y1932, seria No. sismo s claims, (ci. 22e-5.7i

This invention relates to containers which may be either cylindrical in shape or frusta-.con-

ical in shape, and which may for convenience be termed drum containers. The concerned particularly with the invention is provision of such containers constructed primarily of ber board or the like.

'Ihe objects cipally, the provision of a novel structure for new structure is employed which mg. the same to the circular tainer, or, in accordance with vari of the invention include, prin'- head or end closing the ends o f the container.

securing ring. In accordance with this ring preferably has such procross-section as to provide for securwalls of the conations of the invention, to a circular closure ring and also as well for securing the same the ring constitutes to the end brous material such head. Thus.

a. connecting element. The

be formed of y winding as paper, tightly into shape with the plies of paper or the like being glued or otherwise secured pleted and dry a The invention detailed description progresses.

In the accompanying drawing: Fig. shape illustrating another form ci with some of the parts being Fig. 2 is a view of a container still further modified of the parts in section.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken substantially on- 1ine3-30fFig.2

together so that when comsolid ring structure is provided. will be better appreciated as the 1 is a view of a container of truste-conical closure head shown in section.

illustrating a form and also showing some 40 Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail illustrating one formation of the ring structure.

Fig. 5 a detail view illustrating a lap Joint.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectionalview illustrating a form of butt edge seam. 5 The particular container of Fig. the form of a bucket or of frusto although the head structure may tain 2 =..f be formed of a blank,

a suitable seam 21.

lisshownin -conical shape be employed body of the conas at 2o, pro- The head struc,`

ture may comprise a ring 22 having a disk 23 on its underside, and acover disk 24 of a diameter so as'to overlap the the container blank, and the three be united by stitches 25.- Areinio advantageously top edges of elements may rc 26 and Howard G. Allen,

may be used i! desired. This cover is advantageously secured to the container by stitches 15. Another type, of container is shown in Fig. 2 wherein the container body 30 is cylindrical, made o1' a blank with its edges in a seam 31, and v5 due to the type of head structure the seam at 3l. preferably has an inside sealing strip 32 held by stitches 3 (Fig. 3) to form a smooth outside surface. The head structure comprises a ring 33 and a sealing disk 34 connected to the ring by 1o stitches 35. This form ol' the invention has a. protector section advantageously oi' a short cylindrical portion, as shown at 36, fitting over the outside o1' the container and which may be secured to the ring by stitches 37. The stitches 37, as shown, are of the clinched leg type but they bottom of the of any suitable structure as the bottom need not necessarily be made like the topi This container may be sealed by a summed strip. The rings 22 and 33 may be made up by tightly winding fibrous material into a multiplicity of to a substantially predetermined diameter, and

form of a relatively long cylinder. The rings-are A thus continuous or unbroken as distinguished from split rings.4 However, these ring structures n may be constructed of material other than windings oi' brous material, such as paper, as above 3o described. The rings may be formed of molded pulp and may be used with or without stiilening agents, such as molten sulp synthetic resins, or the like. Also the rings may be o! molded vu1 canized ber. 35 Where the rings are made up of superimposed windings it is preferable that the stitches, such as stitches 25, be disposed at an angle to a radial line as illustrated in Fig. 4, .so that the legs of each stitch pass through the ring between or 4o adjacent different superimposed windings to minimize the tendency of splitting the ring. The stitches `25, as shown in Fig. 1,'may be clinched on 'the'underside oi the disc 23.

With the useoi such a ring stitches may be used which are not driven completely through the ring but which are embedded therein. Stitches of this type are shown in Figs. 1 and 4. In reference to Fig. 4, it will be notedthat the legs o1' the stitches 15 are stitches are advantageouslytermed stitches. Thesestitches may be the material of the wall intoI the ring, and the legs straight path as they are deflected leg driven through of the container and are deilected out of a.

the windings may be in the 25 v angularly disposed, and these 5o driven, so as to fox'mfal 5 1;v

sort of tie structure for eilectively holding the stitches in place. The formation of such stitches and machine ior driving and deecting the legs thereof are shown in our Patent No. 1,958,739 of May 15, 1934, and further detailed description thereof is not deemed necessary.

The present container of ber board may be employed for many different articles of merchandise, as for example, soap powder, lime, chemicals, meat products, soap i'lakes, wire in --coils, rolls of screen cloth, textile goods, or semisolid stuffs like lard, butter or cheese. In containers, from which portions may be dispensed from time to time, the head structure as shown in Fig. 1 may be employed as the stitches 15 may be removed andthen the head may be easily removed and replaced. The type of structure shown in Fig. 2 is advantageous for use in shipment of cheese or the like.

`The container is one which may be shipped to the user in fiat form, the body blanks being flat, and the head structures may be completed by the manufacturer so that all that the user has todoisshape thebodyblankandnishitsseam and then fasten the end heads thereto. It is withinthe invention tomake'the body of the container from more than one blank.

It is to be understood that the containers shown herein, and other containers which may fallwithintheclaims,maybeusedwithany sort of seam or Joint, as for example, the lap jointasiilustratedinl'lg. 5. Thisisasimple type of seam; the edges of the material 20 may be overlapped as shown and secured together advantageously by penetrating devices such as stitches 3. A stronger type of butt seam is illustrated in Fig. 6. Here the strip 2 is attached to the ends or edges of the material 20 by two rowsl of stitches 3a and'ab, the stitches 3a penetrating one edge of the material 20, and the stitches 3b penetrating the other edge.

container body of ber board, an end head comprising a disk of ber board having dimensions such as to rest upon the edge of the ber board material of the body, a brous ring on the inside of the end head tting relatively snugly against the inside peripheral walls of the body, metallic penetrating means extending through the end head and into the ring, and U-shaped stitches embedded in the ring and extending through the material of the body with the legs of the stitches being disposed substantially out of parallelism whereby to tie into the material of the ber ring.

3. A drum type container of ber board comprising a drum-shaped container of ber board, a brous ring tted within one end of the container having cross-sectional dimensions such as to receive axially disposed stitches and radially -disposed stitches, a brous disk inside the ring, a brous disk outside the ring with its edges lapping over the edge of the container body, metallic devices penetrating in an axial direction through the brous ring and into end head disks, and other metallic penetrating devices extending in a radial direction through the container wall and inta the fibrous disk.

HERBERT R. BLISS. HOWARD G. ALLEN. 

